When we think about music from other countries, it can be easy to get caught up in a one-note stereotype. UI’s Hancher will present Sones de México Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre, where the folk music ensemble will share the full scope of Mexico’s varied traditions.

In honor of Cesar Chavez week, the Association of Latinos Moving Ahead welcomes award-winning artist Joaquin Zihuatanejo to the UI campus for a celebration of diversity and the power of words. Zihuatanejo will perform Wednesday, April 2, at Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Clinton Street will be closed to through traffic from the intersection at Burlington Street south one block to Court Street, effective April 1 through August 26. Traffic should follow detour signs via S. Dubuque Street to Prentiss Street.

Girl Scouts from Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois spent the day at the UI College of Engineering participating in STEM activities including casting broken bones, making batteries, and testing scientific laws.

Denise Veatch Cofas was able to realize her dream of obtaining a bachelor's degree thanks to a UI Division of Continuing Education distance learning program, and is proud to say she's "a Hawkeye through and through."

The University of Iowa Main Library Learning Commons, in conjunction with Craft Critique Culture, an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is hosting a Social Media Boot Camp March 31-April 5.

Come join “Mission Pollock” at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday on Friday, April 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. at FilmScene, on the downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall at 118 E. College St. First Friday is free and open to the public.

A University of Iowa freshman who found an injured owl on campus last month and arranged for the Macbride Raptor Project to nurse it back to health released the owl Friday near the spot where it was found.

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, "Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education," Dubuque artist Adam Eikamp is creating a sculpture for the new UI West Campus Residence Hall with a curved shape representing "the creative and educational process."

Want to explore the story behind school lunches in New York City, dive to the depths of the Arctic seafloor, or venture into our possible future if we continue to pollute? The UI Museum of Natural History invites you along on these adventures during the Movies@MNH Earth Month Movie Series.

The Mission Creek Festival and Prairie Lights Books will present a free reading by Writers' Workshop alumnus Kyle Minor and University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumna Angela Pelster at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights will host a discussion examining current events in Ukraine featuring three experts from among UI faculty. The discussion will be Wednesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in Room C31 Pomerantz Center on the UI campus.